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  1. Bug #92296
  2. Comment #29

Comment 29 for bug 92296

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ropers (ropers) wrote : Re: [Feisty] Low quality of text rendering in Evince

I've previously posted the following info at bug 26118, but was advised that it's probably related to this bug, so I'm reposting things here:

I'm also seeing absolutely atrocious font rendering with some PDF files in evince.

gpdf renders the same PDFs much better, but appears to use different fonts and ignore settings such as "bold".

Please see the following two screenshots for comparison. Yes, this is the same document, in evince and in gpdf on Ubuntu 6.10.

Evince pdf screenshot:
http://librarian.launchpad.net/7035137/Screenshot.evince.png

gPDF pdf screenshot:
http://librarian.launchpad.net/7035138/Screenshot.gpdf.png

And this is the actual PDF file the above screenshots were taken with:
PDF file that is rendered badly in evince (and gPDF is not too great either):
http://librarian.launchpad.net/7035319/18280.pdf